TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelson,Derek R.
TI  - What's wrong with sin?: sin in individual and social perspective from Schleiermacher to theologies of liberation 
SN  - 9780567059260 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BT715 .N39 2009eb
U1  - 202.2 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - T & T Clark
KW  - Sin
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Faith
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - S�unde
KW  - swd
KW  - Theologie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-206) and index; Introduction -- pt. 1. Nineteenth-century types of social sin. Schleiermacher and Ritschl on individual and social sin -- Finney and Nevin on individual and social sin -- pt. 2. Twentieth-century application. Individual and social sin in selected Latin American theologies -- Individual and social sin in selected feminist theologies -- Individual and social sin in selected Asian theologies -- Conclusion
N2  - The 20th century witnessed a vast proliferation of conceptions of sin in Christian thought. One hallmark thereof has been an increased emphasis on the non-individualistic dimensions of human sin. It is suggested here that there have been two primary types of rejections of individualism in doctrines of sin in the last half-century, the "structural sin" type and the "relational self" type. The book concludes with recommendations drawn from the preceding analyses for further understanding of the social dimensions of sin: the need for clarifying the agential status of a "social structure;" the mor
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